Lent Appeal 2022

Collaboration à la Santé Publique Burkina Faso (CSPB) a small registered French charity

http://cspb.cagnes.pagesperso-orange.fr

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CSPB have a midwife and a nurse specialised in HIV and reproductive health, three birth attendants all of whom work with local rural bush nurses and in villages, running clinics and training. The charity provides information talks on contraceptive implants and follow up appointments for girls/women of child bearing age offering them implants for those wanting them. CSPB organise talks in rural village school and colleges, the charity run ‘the school of husbands’ for men providing them with advice on Family Planning. Awareness campaigns for adolescent girls to help reduce unwanted pregnancies that often result in forced marriages and that can cause girls to stop schooling. The charity’s work is supported by local religious leaders, tribal chiefs and the government.

We look forward to welcoming Alasdair MacKenzie (member of St. Columba’s) to do a brief talk during the service on: Sunday 6th March and Sunday 10th April (Palm Sunday).

If you would like to contribute to the Lent Appeal: Gift Aid helps, if you are eligible. If you need to complete a Gift Aid declaration form, please contact the Church Office. Various options to donate:

White Lent Appeal envelopes are available in the Upper Vestibule.

Alternatively, by electronic bank transfer: Please use “Lent Appeal” as the payment reference.

St Columba’s Church of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
Account Number 00264741
Sort Code 16 00 42

Cheques payable to: “St. Columba’s Church of Scotland” and with a note that it is for the Lent Appeal. Send to:

Finance Dept. (Lent Appeal)
St. Columba’s Church
Pont Street
London SW1X 0BD

Lent and Easter 2022

Echoing Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness, the season of Lent is time set aside to prepare and deepen us for the eventual embrace and celebration of Easter. Lent is the opportunity to enter profoundly into the mystery of Christ’s life, death and resurrection; a time to reassess what is important; a time to consider what Christ means to us now. Jesus’ hard road to the Cross is offered as reminder, strength, and challenge for the hard roads which we, or our loved ones, may need to travel. Whatever your tradition of prayer (or none), familiar, or not, with St Columba’s or the Church of Scotland, we hope you will discover something to inspire you, encourage you, and help you to pray – resourced, resilient, and rejoicing for the pilgrim road ahead.

Ways to travel:

Holy Week Services

Thursday 14^th April, 8p.m.  Maundy Thursday Holy Communion
Friday 15^th April, 11a.m. Service of Readings & Music for Good Friday
Sunday 17^th April, 11a.m. Easter Morning Holy Communion

Prayer for the Journey to Easter

In this holy season of Lent,
may the mind of Christ be in us.
Enable us both to examine our conscience
and to inform it;
both to examine our faith
and to deepen it;
and to watch and pray,
as Christ would have us do,
so that we recognise temptation
and spurn it. Amen.
(From Common Worship)

Luke 4: 1-13: The temptation of Jesus

Hall Hire

St Columba’s Church of Scotland is based in the heart of Knightsbridge. Excellent tube and bus services make the church easily accessible. The building was designed by architect Edward Maufe who created an extraordinary space for church and community to come together.

Please note that we are unable to offer hall hires on Sundays or Bank Holidays.

All hires include use of the hall, tables and chairs as well as crockery/cutlery for kitchen hires.

Hirers are responsible for cleaning and tidying after themselves. An extra charge will incur for any cleaning required from our team after the event.

2025 Hire Rates

St Columba’s London in 360

The Church of Scotland Art and Architecture Committee bring this 360 Degree experience of St Columba’s London.

Welcome to St Columba’s virtual tour:

Please use the arrows at the top left corner of the video to look around in real-time.

Blurb- St Columba’s Church of Scotland virtual Coffee Morning with Revd Camille Cook Howe of Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Washington. Camille is the former Associate Minister of St Columba’s.

St Columba’s virtual “coffee morning” with Revd Bola Adamolekun, Church of England Chaplain at Brixton Prison discusses her role at the Prison in what was Prisons Week. Bola will talk about how COVID has affected support to prisoners, the highs and lows of her role and will give further information on Prisons Week.

Calling all youngsters!

We (the Youth Committee and the Sunday School team) are exploring the possibility of creating a new youth group and we need your help to create something that works for you!

Grown-ups, we’ll need your help with the survey, but we would love the answers to come from the youngsters aged 9 and above .

For more information, please watch this short video and follow the link to complete the survey by 23 July 2021.

Take Survey

REFLECTION & POINTS FOR PRAYER
Prepared by the Congregational Prayer Group
St. Columba’s, Pont Street, & St. Andrew’s, Newcastle.
Sunday 11th April 2021, the 2nd Sunday after Easter

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